>Does the LUG currently have the resources to put together an event this<br>>year?<br>lol heh, we have the grand total of 0 useful resources at the moment..<br>We could get a list of what we have thats useful on here:
<br><br>>I have no idea what the state of the LUG is other than it coming back<br>>to life fairly recently. I know from helping run Tyneside LUG it takes a<br>>fair amount of work and running around to pull events off.
<br>Its pretty dire to be honest, we have no idea if there are enough people interested to a get a meet off anyway..<br><br>> Also - does anyone (I'm looking at Craig now) have any thoughts towards<br>> having a social gathering sometime over the next month?
<br>Yeah, I've thought about asking a few of the bars and such around town how much they'd charge for the use of their function room (+projector to hook up a box for some demonstrations etc.)<br><br>Of the few people I've got that are interested - I think the best way to start would be to have a meet basically explaining what GNU/Linux is and then going on to show a little of what it can do.. (aka grab a hold of some videos of windows doing functions such media centre and then going to linux and showing one of its equivalents
<br><br>>Have there been any other meets previously? Where would be the proposed<br>>location of the meetings?<br>I've had a few thoughts about places for meets,<br>so far I've come up with the Crown & Mitre (not sure about the crowd that go in there tho'.. quite a few travellers <rant>why they call 'em travellers anyway - they never fsckin leave!!</rant> go in there)
<br><br>I have emailed the dudes who were at the bearings building linux based
servers & networks, but never got an answer.. Assuming they've
keeled over.. :(<br><br>Did ask an barman at the atrium whether they'd consider letting us use the space in their bar.. but didn't get a useful answer, (maybe we could get Adam to clarify Chris?)<br><br>Other than that - I guess we just need to ask around the bars and such..
<br><br>> And - finally, does anyone have preference on the wiki for our LUG's<br>> website. I was thinking media wiki as it is what wikipedia uses and people<br>> will likely trust that.<br>>DokuWiki might be worth looking at. Its a lot less hastle and lighter
<br>>compared to mediawiki IMO.<br>>ChrisB.<br><br>After reading through the testimonials, features and such for DokuWiki, I have to agree, it may be a lot less hassle.. +1 for DokuWiki<br><br>Craig<br>